63 Degrees in Social Sciences in Sweden for 2024
- Linköping, Sweden
- Norrköping, Sweden
Full time
4 semesters
On-Campus
English
Population aging and rising inequalities are marked trends worldwide, while globalization, digitalization, urbanization, migration, and changing gender relations are having profound effects on our lives. A longer living population presents global challenges and opportunities that affect every aspect of our lives, such as welfare, the environment, health, finance, housing, and employment. Gaining a profound understanding of the potentials and challenges of aging is crucial for the well-being of humankind and the sustainability of society.
- Malmö, Sweden
Part time
2 years
Distance Learning
English
Communication for Development (ComDev) is an interdisciplinary field combining studies on culture, media, communication, and development. ComDev explores communication within contexts of articulating global and local processes of social change. This is a half-time study program, combining courses on culture, communication, and development and integrating them with practical fieldwork. It explores the use of communication - both as a tool and as a way of expressing processes of social change - within the context of globalization.
- Linköping, Sweden
Full time
4 semesters
On-Campus
English
Become an agent for change! This one-of-a-kind master’s program makes you highly skilled in analyzing how social and cultural change can be initiated or sustained by integrating a critical understanding of gender and intersectionality.
- Malmö, Sweden
Full time
3 years
On-Campus
English
This three-year bachelor's program provides you with in-depth knowledge of Peace and Conflict Studies as a field, including its historical and theoretical foundations and its key analytical and methodological approaches. Moreover, you will get insights into specialized subject areas within the field such as civil society and social movements; media, propaganda, and enemy images; and the role of the United Nations.
- Malmö, Sweden
Full time
1 year
On-Campus
English
The master’s programme in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) focuses on current international developments and research perspectives in migration and ethnic relations; the effects of globalisation and human mobility on societies, groups and individuals; the social and political adaptation and integration of ethnic minorities in different societies; issues of inclusion and exclusion of immigrants; majority-minority relations; philosophical and ethical perspectives on life in diverse and complex societies.
- Kalmar, Sweden
Full time
2 years
On-Campus
English
The program’s focus on leadership, democracy, and human rights aims to prepare tomorrow’s researchers, social narrators, and decision-makers for contributing responsibly and insightfully to the development and regulation of the media landscape, based on democratic ideals and principles, regardless of nationality and geographical considerations. The program focuses on an understanding of the increasingly important role and growing impact of the media as regards public service announcements, political communication, cultural expression, and social mobilization. The students are provided with a theoretical understanding, analytical tools, and strategic competence, all of which enable them to not only understand, but to become active agents in, media development that affects democracy, human rights, and regulation of the media in an international context. The program is highly international, using case studies and course reading taken from a broad international context, and attracting students from all over the world. The international degree awarded upon completion of the entire program is a Master of Arts (120 credits) in Media and Communications. The diploma and the degree certificate are issued in Swedish and English and are accompanied by a diploma supplement in English.
- Malmö, Sweden
Full time
3 years
On-Campus
English
The Bachelor in International Migration and Ethnic Relations program gives you a solid foundation for a career dealing with migration and diversity-related issues such as asylum law, segregation, discrimination, social cohesion, globalization, and integration, or for further studies at the Master’s level. Migration, especially its effects on a global scale, has become one of the most fundamental issues concerning societies worldwide. Governments, corporations, politicians, and individuals all over the world try to grasp the possibilities and concerns of increasing mobility on a global scale.
- Växjö, Sweden
Full time
1 year
On-Campus
This inspiring and interdisciplinary master's program from Linnaeus Universityis designed for those passionate about peace, development and international development co-operation. It explores the relationship between poverty, conflicts and sustainable development, and considers political room formanoeuvre for change.Students will analyze current research along with practical work carried out by international institutions, non-governmental organisations and social movements. When working on the final thesis, students may work together with an organization or conduct a field study in a developing country, providing the opportunity to discuss how development issues can be solved in real politics.
- Malmö, Sweden
Full time
1 year
On-Campus
English
The master's program Global Politics aims towards you who are interested in global political issues. You will learn how an increasingly complex world, where the global and the local meet, presents us with new challenges and opportunities. The program provides you with a solid practical base concerning concepts like justice, peace, security, power, culture, and democracy. You will learn how to analyze conflicts, international relations, and human rights claims and violations.
- Växjö, Sweden
Full time
1 year
On-Campus
English
In Peace and Development Work, you study the relationship between poverty, conflicts, and sustainable development as well as political room for maneuver for change.
- Växjö, Sweden
Full time
2 years
On-Campus
English
The Master in International Affairs (MIA) is a two-year full-time program with a curriculum that develops the skills and knowledge of international affairs professionals with an interest in contemporary international changes and challenges. The main objective of the program is to prepare graduates to pursue careers in international organizations, businesses, transnational civil society organizations, or within diplomacy.
- Stockholm, Sweden
Full time
2 years
On-Campus
English
This programme is unique in Europe. It was developed as a response to a demand for a partially new profession that supports communication between developers and users of systems in the defence and security industry. The programme focuses on analysing complex problems and possibilities from a systems perspective.
- Linköping, Sweden
Full time
4 semesters
On-Campus
English
Challenge conventional views on children and childhood. This master’s program is interdisciplinary and focuses on the critical study of questions related to children and childhood.
- Linköping, Sweden
Full time
4 semesters
On-Campus
English
This program approaches issues related to European relations in the context of an international society and global governance, with a special focus on Europe’s role in world affairs. The double focus on international and European relations makes this a unique master’s program, offering you a competitive edge. ========
- Linköping, Sweden
- Norrköping, Sweden
Full time
4 semesters
On-Campus
English
Make your commitment matter! You are dedicated to helping to tackle some of the most challenging issues in today’s world. This unique master’s program relates ethnicity and migration to global economic and cultural change, and to systems of domination and resistance movements.